India’s Opioid Kings - BBC Africa Eye Documentary
Who is flooding West Africa with dangerous opioids? The BBC goes undercover to find out.
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For more than a decade, West Africa has been in the grip of an opioid crisis. Illegal, addictive, dangerous pills are sold on the streets.
But who’s making these tablets?
Who’s packaging them to look like medicines?
And who’s shipping them into Africa by the container load?
#BBCAfricaEye and #BBCEye Investigations trace the opioid route back to India — and go undercover to expose some of the men profiting from other people’s misery.
00:00 Introduction
01:43 Opioid addiction in Kano, northern Nigeria
07:22 Nigeria's crackdown on opioid trafficking
11:35 India as pharmacy of the world
14:08 Citizens' Task Force drug raid in Tamale, Ghana
21:19 Who's making the drugs in Tamale?
23:34 Addiction specialist explains harm of "Tafrodol" combination pill
25:27 New opioid on the streets: "Tafrodol"
27:00 Who is manufacturing it?
29:06 Undercover inside the factory
37:45 "Nowadays, this is business"
41:28 Ghanaian imports of opioids
46:14 Burning seized drugs in Tamale
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